Suppose you want to announce or sell something, amuse or persuade someone, explain a complicated system or demonstrate a process. In other words, you have a message you want to communicate. How do you “send” it?

Have a look at these subliminal messages hidden in famous corporate logos. Advertisers spend significant time and money designing the right logo for their brand, so it’s really not surprising that there’s usually more to a logo than what you might notice at first glance.

Time to take the excellent logos that designers slaved over and tear them a new one. Time to take those sweet perfect icons of million dollar teams and contort them for the sake of a bad joke. Time to destroy what we love. It’s time to redesign the logos once again.

Dutch illustrator Stefan Glerum is one of the most accomplished image-makers working today. His latest show at London's Kemistry Gallery is a whirlwind of references; from Art Deco to Bauhaus, Italian Futurism to Russian Constructivism; criss-crossing time and space with enviable style. Called simply _Five Years of Work By Stefan Glerum_, the exhibition features work with which even casual observers may be familiar, but that doesn't in any way lessen its impact.

This photo isn’t actually a photo. From the furniture to the beautiful light falling on the countertops and wood floors, what you’re looking at is a CGI rendering that has replaced 75% of the ‘photos’ in the IKEA catalogs the college kids, divorced men and NYC residents in your life have lying around.

Traditional time-lapses are constrained by the idea that there is a single universal clock. In the spirit of Einstein's relativity theory, layer-lapses assign distinct clocks to any number of objects or regions in a scene. Each of these clocks may start at any point in time, and tick at any rate. The result is a visual time dilation effect known as layer-lapse.

Your website needs to be a stage for attracting visitors who might eventually turn into your valued customers. There are many freebies available for your WordPress blog or your personal website. These are a set of fantastic tools consisting of massive icons, badges, kits, photos, images, textures and much more.

Like many designers, I learned InDesign by leaping headfirst into it and figuring it out as I went. (In my case, I transitioned from the Illustrator-centric package design world to the InDesign-centric marketing design world.) I started with the immediate, need-to-know functions. As time went by, I snooped around and learned some simple ways to make InDesign work more effectively for me. What a difference those techniques have made!

Creating design resources is definitely tough. But creating design resources that everyone uses is tougher. Every designer loves to have his resources being used and talked about. So what is it that makes designs usable? One absolute metric that speaks for itself is “the time spent by the user” on the site. To put it in simple words, if a user is hooked to the website, implies that the site is usable. To put it simply, your user interface design should be so brilliant and beautiful that it keeps a person hooked to the page they are using, be it on any platform – mobile, website, application or software.

From patterns, to videos, to images, there are a lot of things to choose from when it comes to selecting the perfect backdrop to any design project. While the texture or image you choose is not necessarily intended to be a main part of the overall message, it can have quite an impact. Today we’re sharing a few tips and tricks for how to choose an effective background.

Minimalism is definitely the go-to style in the modern web, and icons help you clean up the interface, putting quicker information at the user’s disposal. This time around, we have a series of elements that take advantage of both things: Minimal icons. We’ve put together some of the most inventive, fresh and useful elements all around the web, all for free and ready to be applied within your next project. Check it out!

Most logos aren't designed in fifteen minutes, but most designers aren't Aaron Draplin. Aaron's a Portland fixture by way of the Midwest, the owner of Draplin Design Co., and an advocate of "blue collar" design: design that works. Here he takes our logo design challenge, creating a dozen iterations of a logo for a fictional construction company.

As 2014 draws to a close, it’s time for entrepreneurs, freelancers, and small businesses to prepare for the coming year so they can gain a head start over their competition. The same can be said of web designers who want to cut through the job market by preparing for the popular trends of 2015. That said, here are five most important design trends that they should watch out for.

In this post, I have collated my top 50 FREE resources for web designers from this fantastic year, 2014. There are libraries for quickly creating CSS charts and animating SVG icons, tools for converting image files to data URIs, web-based apps for creating icon fonts from SVGs, jQuery plugins for touch-enabled and lightweight sliders, JavaScript libraries for creating animated GIFs from any type of media, generators for creating Flexbox layouts… and much, much more.